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Judicial Approaches To Urban Housing Problems - A Study Of The Cleveland Housing Court, W. Dennis Keating Apr 1987

Judicial Approaches To Urban Housing Problems - A Study Of The Cleveland Housing Court, W. Dennis Keating

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

This article reviews the role and impact of urban housing courts. It analyzes the findings of a detailed empirical study of Cleveland's housing court, which began operations in April 1980, and discusses the relationship of this court to code enforcement and resolution of landlord-tenant disputes. The court's role in innovative remedies, especially the appointment of receivers for abandoned housing, is also discussed and reforms are suggested. The article concludes with an overall assessment of the potential of housing courts to deal effectively with urban housing issues.


The New Intoxication Defense For Ohio Employers, Terry A. Donner Jan 1987

The New Intoxication Defense For Ohio Employers, Terry A. Donner

Cleveland State Law Review

Ohio workers' compensation system has been in a state of emergency for the last two years as labor and business groups battled over a series of employee-oriented Ohio Supreme Court decisions. Labor groups hailed these decisions as the vehicle which would propel Ohio's workers' compensation law into the twentieth century. Conversely, business groups condemned the decisions asserting that they exposed Ohio employers to infinite liability and destroyed Ohio's industrial climate. S.B. 307 has changed the face of Ohio's workers' compensation law by revamping the definition of injury, establishing an intentional tort fund, and creating a new intoxication defense for Ohio …


The Close Corporation Under Ohio Law, Forrest B. Weinberg Jan 1987

The Close Corporation Under Ohio Law, Forrest B. Weinberg

Cleveland State Law Review

Section 1701.591 of the Ohio Revised Code is Ohio's close corporation law. It provides, through the use of a "close corporation agreement," the mechanism, first, for implementing unprecedented informality in the functioning of a close corporation and, second, for establishing a legal relationship among the shareholders that is essentially the same as that provided by law for members of a partnership. The new law will have the major impact it deserves only as the result of initiative taken by Ohio attorneys engaged in the formation and ongoing representation of close corporations. It is hoped that this article will help motivate …